Patient no: Age/Sex | Primary Disorder | Type of Transplant | Interval between Transplantation and Symptoms Onset | Neurological Symptoms | Specimen and Quantity of HHV-6 PCR | Outcome | ||||
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Disorientation | Short-term Memory Loss | Coma | Hypopnea | Convulsion | ||||||
1:49/F | Acute leukemia | Cord blood stem cell | 27 | + | + | 9000 (CSF) and 3000 (blood*) copies/mL | Improved (remaining disorientation and memory loss) | |||
2:41/F | Acute leukemia | (Peripheral blood stem cell) | (979) | + | + | 49,000 copies/mL (CSF) | Improved (remaining disorientation and memory loss) | |||
3:55/M | Non-Hodgkin lymphoma | Bone marrow | 22 | + | + | 400,000 copies/mL (blood) | Dead (sepsis) | |||
4:52/M | Non-Hodgkin lymphoma | Bone marrow | 14 | + | + | + | 58,000 copies/mL (CSF) | Improved | ||
5:36/M | Acute leukemia | Bone marrow | 19 | + | + | + | + | + | 2300 copies/mL (CSF) | Dead (intestinal pneumonitis) |
6:37/F | Acute leukemia | Bone marrow | 17 | + | + | + | 3000 copies/mL (CSF) | Dead (liver failure) |
Note:—HHV-6 indicates human herpesvirus 6; PCR; polymerase chain reaction.
* Peripheral blood.